secretary of state, hillary clinton is at the meeting and she has announced today there will be an extra $45 million sent by the united states to aid the rebels, the so-called nonlethal aid including helping them organize and buying them communications equipment. as for the u.n. itself, this is pressure little action despite the words we have heard continually from almost every speaker in the john assembly podium this week. >> the regime of bashar al-assad must come to an end so the suffering of the syrian people can stop. >> this is a calamity. >> the future for syria is a future without assad. >>jonathan: that future can only be achieved with action from the u.n. that takes security council action as long as russia and china continue to resist that, and it will not happen. >>shepard: the matter of the president drawing a red line on the using or utilization of weapons, the chemical weapons. do we know if the scenes are moving them to protect them from others? do we have any idea? >>jonathan: it appears we don't have a great deal of idea. the defense secretary panetta, as you heard in y